He knew there was nothing left to do. The plan had been to let McGee rot while he got away, somewhere far and with Abby, but now his dreams were shattered. Kevin had seen all his projects go to hell, all his hard work come undone. Abby had said he was meaningless. Instead of seeing his feat like a gentleman's deed for love, instead of realizing that he had done it all for her because he would do whatever it took to be with her... But no. She told her he was nothing. Nothing! After all the sacrifices he'd made for her, and now she was abandoning him. Not only that, she was going to work to convict him, she was going to work against him! And that Gibbs man was creeping the hell out of him. He didn't care for when he thought Abby was on his side, but now... now he had no one on his side, nothing... or maybe...
"I can tell you where your guy is, but I want some guarantees."
Two hours later, the team was ready to raid a dark, seemingly abandoned warehouse and came in, charging. That was the address that Kevin had given them, in the hopes of getting a merciful conviction. Gibbs, Tony and Ziva searched every room, but there was no one there. Not a trace of Tim, nothing.
"Damn!" shouted Gibbs.
"You think he played us, boss?" asked Tony, still with the gun in his hand, still searching frantically with his eyes for some clue.
"He seemed sincere enough." Answered Gibbs.
"Why would he deceive us? He wins nothing by distracting us." Added Ziva, confused as well.
They checked the building again, and the buildings next to the warehouse (just in case) but to no avail. There was nothing.
Tony sighed in frustration.
"I really thought we were going to find him…. We should probably go back to headquarters."
The team admitted defeat and was going back to the car when Ziva noticed something strange on the floor. At first she couldn't quite place what it was, but then, it hit her. The sound. There was an area where she'd walked that sounded different than the others. She went back to where she came from and found it again. Yes, her footsteps sounded different there.
She went down to examine the area and finally found it. A secret door on the floor and some stairs under it. A secret basement.
"Gibbs! Tony! Come here! I found another room!"
Both men ran back into the warehouse and followed Ziva down those secret stairs. After the fiasco of the warehouse, this gave them new hopes. They still could find Tim. With their weapons drawn, carefully, they entered the main room of the basement and saw someone in the shadows.
"Tim!"
There he was, they had finally found him. Tim was sprawled in the corner on the basement, his hand behind his back and a trail of dried blood in his stomach. Tony and Ziva uncuffed him while Gibbs called the ambulance. McGee was injured, unconscious and pale as a sheet, but he was alive and he was no longer in the power of a psycho. No, he was back with his family and everything was going to be ok. Relief was present in all the faces: they were happy the nightmare was finally over. They waited until the ambulance came and followed it to the hospital. Everything seemed to be going better.
Abby was having a sip of caf-pow when the call came. The call she'd wanted to hear the most for the last days. It was Tony, telling her that they'd found Timmy and they were taking him to the hospital. He was alive, he was safe. A couple of tears of joys made her way through her cheeks while she packed her things and left.
The trip to the hospital seemed eternal; she wanted so badly to be there! When she finally arrived, it didn't take her long to find the others. Ducky and Jimmy were there too, they had arrived only a couple of minutes before her. She hugged everyone and together they waited until they saw a doctor approaching them, hopefully with news about their partner's condition.
"Are you Tim's doctor?" She asked the doctor, a smiling woman about her age with bushy brown hair.
"I am the doctor, indeed. You're all here for Mr. McGee?" The doctor asked.
"Yes, we are."
"And it's Agent McGee." Added Gibbs, stern as usual.
"Right, they told me. NCIS. Navy Cops In Space. Yeah, I really don't think it stands for that…. OK, so about Agent McGee. He was dehydrated and his stab wound was infected but we're giving him fluids and antibiotics for that and we've stitched the wound, easy thing. He also had some bruise all over his chest and abdomen so once he's out of here he'll need to wait for them to fully heal until he goes back to… whatever you navy cops do. There was no extensive damage to any internal organ, so once the infection clears up, he'll be discharged with no lasting effects whatsoever."
"That is excellent news, Dr. Cunningham" Said Ducky, reading the name in the woman's nametag "and we thank you for your speedy job and for being kind enough to inform us."
"Always a pleasure working with the law people. Now, I have to go continue making my round, I'll go back to check on Agent McGee in a bit. You can go see him, he's in room 435, although he's probably still sleeping. Oh, and one or two visitors only at the same, ok? "
"Yes." Abby said, smiling, anxious to see Tim again "and thank you again!"
Everyone was smiling now. Those were very good news.
"Abby" said Gibbs, when the doctor was gone "why don't you go first?"
The goth just hugged her boss and stormed off to room 435. She found Tim still asleep and threw herself next to him.
"You can't imagine how happy I am that you're all right, Timmy. But never scare me like this again, ok?"
Back in the waiting room, Gibbs' smile was gone. He was on the phone with director Vance he didn't like what he was hearing.
"What do you mean he has escaped?" he asked, not believing his ears.
Abby barely noticed someone in a white coat walking into the room because her attention was on the patient next to her. But when she heard someone locking the door and closing the door she looked up.
"No!"
It was Kevin. Pointing a shotgun at her. In a white coat.
"You don't get to destroy my life and walk away with him. If I go down, you're coming down with me."
A/N: I know. Evil ending. I just didn't think that a villain like this would give up without a good fight. Hope you liked it! Feel free to tell me any of your thoughts on the story so far. I love to know if I'm doing good or no. Next one will be the last chapter!
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